High School Science Journal

Articles Found: 71

The Truth of Global Warming

July 12, 2006 - Hillary Raya - Every year scientists complain about how global warming is affecting the earth and constantly fret about how the people of the world must stop burning fuels and man-made radiation. However, scient...

Toilet to Tap

July 12, 2006 - Denise Russell - In the San Fernando Valley officials are attempting to recycle water in a new, very controversial, way.  They will try to turn toilet water into drinking water.  This program is called &l...

Alba - The Glow in the Dark Bunny

June 14, 2006 - Laura Yan - Soaking under the warm sunshine, Alba nibbles on a patch of fresh grass, ears perked, fur bristling as she hops from one place to another. She looks just like a regular rabbit—round, white, an...

All About the Bird Flu

June 14, 2006 - Carolyn Jin - The Bird flu, also known as Avian Influenza, is a contagious, virus-caused disease that is common in birds worldwide. The virus itself is a mutual parasite within the intestines of wildlife birds....

Configuration

June 14, 2006 - Nicholas Nolta - Here’s a fun way to learn electron configurations for chemistry: play Configuration! It’s a card game that involves strategy, speed, knowledge of electron configurations, and a little luc...

Desperate for an Alternative

June 14, 2006 - Michael Prince - As Southern California residents, you probably know the feeling of spending twice what you did a few years ago to fill up your car’s gas tank. Gas prices have risen drastically over the past...

Faster, Higher, Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper, Quieter!

June 14, 2006 - Dayna Anderson - The advantages of science and technology have reached yet another level in the airplane building industry. Boeing is currently building the airplane of the future with its new 787 Dreamliner. The B...

Fuel for the Future

June 14, 2006 - Daniel Hogan - As oil prices continue to rise, it is only a matter of time before the rich resource that our country relies on is too scarce to support human demands. Worldwide an estimated 81 million barrels of...

Genetically Engineered Crops and the Future

June 14, 2006 - David Seto - In today’s rapidly changing world, two constants are population growth and technological advancement. While technology will inherently grow with little problem, the same cannot be said about t...

Global Warming

June 14, 2006 - Angad Thor - The environment is a very sensitive and well balanced combination of thousands of different processes, species, elements, and other functions. Each of these processes and species work together in u...

Holography: The Future's Finally Here

June 14, 2006 - Daniel Zengel - Many people are familiar with the concept of holograms, an image produced by light that appears three-dimensional. A common hologram is the type that is put on the front of credit cards to prevent...

Homebuilt Hovercraft

June 14, 2006 - Daniel Driver - In the technology age that bloomed at the turn of the millennia, the Internet has become an invaluable resource. Multiple websites cater to amateur inventors. One such site, www.amasci.com, has, am...

Intelligent Design

June 14, 2006 - Thomas Holbrook - The day of reckoning for the theory of Darwinian evolution seems to have finally arrived. No longer is its sovereignty over public school science classes going quietly unchallenged. The theory that...

Population Control

June 14, 2006 - Allie Eisen - According to the United States Census, the world population has reached 6.5 billion people. In any long term human population graph, it is obvious that the world population is multiplying by an ala...

Prevention of SARS through Containment of the Sources

June 14, 2006 - Xiaochen Su - AcknowledgmentsIn this report, I acted as the researcher who organized data from various sources and used them to support my answers on how to effectively stop SARS with minimal loss...

Scrambling to Win

June 14, 2006 - Pavitra Viswanathan - The Science Olympiad competition is a compilation of events that require both the literal and creative application of science and knowledge. One event that tests the competitor's precision, patience,...

Taking a Toll

June 14, 2006 - Blake Lawless - Though many readers may not realize it, a momentous event is going on in Southern Orange County. The San Mateo Creek is one of the only areas in Orange County that remains preserved from the urbani...

The Development of Lasers as Tactical Weapons

June 14, 2006 - Austin Ramsdell - Scientists and engineers have been working for more than four decades on developing a high-powered solid-state laser. This laser technology has been worked on quietly due to its highly destructive...

The Scientific Absurdity of Food Aid

June 14, 2006 - Xiaochen Su - In the recent years of the human history, the transfer, at low or no cost, of food from the wealthy stable countries of the West to the poor war-ravaged states of the South, especially sub-Saharan...

Water Pollution

June 14, 2006 - Leslie Grant - Water pollution is a huge ecological problem. Pinpointing a specific way to treat it is difficult, however, because the sources of pollution vary. The two general types of water pollution are direc...

Why Human Cloning is Wrong

June 14, 2006 - Michelle Zhou - From telegraphs to laptops to hybrid vehicles, technology has been climbing higher and higher up through the years. What’s next? Now comes the topic of embryonic stem cell research, the use of...

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